Not only that, what the media and the TDS people on this site fail to mention is that her Jamaican ancestors were slave owners. Her father admitted this years ago.
She is being fawned all over by the Democrat media. She said Trump's stance to close the border was separating mothers from children - as in illegals coming in. She has zero concern for American mothers separated from their children forever by the crimes of illegal aliens. American citizens don't count.
Oh please, you know that Black means African American, when someone lives in America.
Someone who lives in America, who's been exposed to society outside of Utah, and has more than 2 colors in their repertoire: white and others, understands very well that Black is not a nationality. Being American is a nationality, but MAGAs don't understand what that means.
"Black" is shorthand for a particular way society or a community treats a person based on their appearance, and the identity that grows out of that treatment. Here's what Ms Harris and her sister looked like as children.
Since she was treated as black, she developed an identity consonant with that.
You are also discussing ancestry. The vast majority of the population of Jamaica came from Africa as slaves to be enslaved in British sugar plantations (roughly 85% at the time of emancipation). So it's not surprising that Jamaicans that came to the US were treated like other descendants of slaves from Africa.
I notice someone mentioned slave owners in her ancestry. It was a fact of slave life that female slaves were frequently raped by male slave owners, slave overseers, etc. This industrial scale rape means that many African Americans who have some white ancestry are the descendants of such rape victims. I can't see how that impugns the descendants in any way shape or form. https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4p2956.html https://encyclopediavirginia.org/entries/sexual-exploitation-of-the-enslaved/
@ElwoodBlues I have also read that some people believe in white purity, and this is why anyone that has a drop of black or brown blood, cannot be called white.
@DogMan I have the impression that the laws against interracial marriage contained that idea of one drop making a person non-white.
SCOTUS struck down such laws in the aptly named Loving v Virginia 1967 decision. Prior to that, in some states interracial marriage - as defined by the one-drop rule - was a crime.
Should be settled law, right? But the recently overturned Roe v Wade decision came less than six years later.
Kamala is VP. Cheatlle was the head of The secret Service. The one thing both have in common is that they were abysmal in their job duties. Color of their skin had nothing to do with that.
@soar2newhighs you are entitled to your view, but try to list pros and cons and see what you think. Answer are you worse off now than in 2018 or better?
Because it's all about skin color. If it makes you feel any better, the descendants of black slaves made some comments about Kamala when she first ran with Biden, saying, "She might be black, but she's not one of us."
Media and our society likes to put "black" or "Afro-American" as the numb er one ethnic option because of our history of African-American slavery. Like Tiger Woods, who early in his career pointed out he considered himself more Asian than Black, but media and people ignored his personal choices. BTW -- I believe the Jamaican part of Harris' ancestry is not autocthonous Carribean but descended from African slaves brought to Jamaica, so African-American, not Jamaican applies.
What would happen to a person that is half black, and half white, if they decided they were to be called white? Would the Democrats accept a person like this?
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@DogMan Yes. Us liberal Dems are very hot on pronouns and titles. We would 100% embrace this! 😊
Why aren’t Ramaswamy and Haley calling out those who only see Kamala as “ black”? She is the daughter of an Indian Mother. And if she wants to weigh in, the wife of the Trump, V.P. Pick, J.D. Vance the daughter of Indian immigrants also raise the point of Kamala’s lack of exposure and attention to her Indian heritage.
@BohemianBabe DEI is the worst idea ever. It will ruin this country. But it will work out with the left. If they are in the right circle when everything crumbles, they will be royalty.
Of course it will only be 0.001 % of the Democrats.
@DogMan You know almost every veep is a DEI hire, right? Obama needed more support from old white men, so he picked Biden. McCain needed more support from women, so he picked Palin. Trump was having trouble winning over Evangelicals, so he picked Pence.
@BohemianBabe Yeah I do want it brought up. Kamala is bi racial, but it is apparent the perception of her is that she’s black. Her Indian heritage is not a talking point. The people I mentioned should use it.
@SW-User I do remember learning that back in the days of slavery, if a white man got a black woman pregnant, the offspring could not be called white, due to racist's wanting to keep the "White" pure. Is that also why Obama is called black by the Democrats? It takes a special kind of Racist, to call someone black, that is 1/2 white
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@DogMan It does indeed. And most of them are on this site.
@SW-User It is proof that Biden has/ had a lifelong problem of sticking his foot in his mouth. This was just another example. And no doubt you remember his remark about going through La Guardia airport in NYC, don’t you?
@BritishFailedAesthetic So there actually is some nuance here. The racial concept of blackness and whiteness were created in America. African-American descendants of slaves grow up with black identity. But a lot of people in Jamaica and Africa aren't familiar with blackness and don't think of themselves as black. So it's not uncommon for Jamaicans or Africans to not identify as black. The same thing happened when various European groups came to America. They didn't know they were white until they learned about racial dynamics in America.
Today we have a globalized world where everyone grows up on American media, so this is changing. But it's not uncommon to still run into African immigrants in America who say they're not black, because they're not African-American.
@BritishFailedAesthetic Yes. It is up to her if she identifies as black. I wonder how she does view herself. I was being facetious about her skin though, it's brown.
@SW-User Yet her RACE is being highlighted by the Democrats. Highlighted by calling her "the FIRST" ... as if her skin color somehow made her inferior in their eyes.
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@NoThanksLeon It's also a fact. She's the first FEMALE and first BLACK Vice President. But the American people, least of all the Democrats, did not find Obama inferior as he was the FIRST black man to be president. For TWO terms.
And they won't find Harris inferior either. She's already won this election :) And I, for one, am absolutely delighted! 😎
@SW-User So tell me, why is a "black man" winning the presidency for two terms such a big deal to you and the rest of your ilk? It's been done before by other human beings.
Since she was treated as black, she developed an identity consonant with that.
